Patterned Paper Woodland ~ The Card Concept 40 & FMS205

Happy Wednesday fellow stampers! I designed this card with The Card Concept #40 and Freshly Made Sketches #205 in mind.  

I suppose my card falls into the clean and layered category over at the Card Concept and I was totally inspired by the cute little woodland animals.  In fact I love these little critters so that  if I get time I'm going to try to play along again!

It kinda took a direction entirely different than I had originally planned.  The paper pieced trees and hedgehog were in my original design in my head, and then I saw a scrap of polka dotted blue laying on my desk and thought it might look good as the sky.  From there on it was patterned paper-palooza!  The interpretation of the sketch is a little loose, but I like it that way!  

I think this little mushroom is probably my favorite thing on this card....it's so cute!  I colored in the white dots with my white gel pen.  

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Life in The Forest, Sprinkles of Life

Ink: Black, Crumb Cake

Paper: Various retired DSP's, Crumb Cake, White

Accessories: Hearth and Home Framelits, Bird Builder punch, circle punch, Linen thread

My Card For Danny ~ CTD301 & JAI223

Little Danny Nickerson is battling brain cancer.  He is about to turn 6years old.  His wish for his birthday was to receive lots of cards.  I made this for him and will be mailing it off today.  Here's a link to the news story about Danny....maybe you could mail him a card too!  His address is:

Danny Nickerson

P.O. Box 212

Foxboro, MA 02035

I used a couple different challenges to create this card.  The color challenge from Color Throwdown 301 and the sketch from Just Add Ink 223.

Since Danny is only turning 6, I wanted to use a fun, animal image.  I stamped on DSP and used the paper piecing technique, plus popped some of the images and sentiment up to add some fun.  I'm sure he'll love each and every card he receives.  I'm sure his family would appreciate prayers too!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANNY!!!!

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Life in the Forest, Hardwood, So Happy For You

Ink: Crumb Cake, Memento Black, Tangelo Twist

Paper: Soft Sky, Smoky Slate, White, Crumb Cake; Moonlight, Fresh Prints, & Sweater Weather DSP

Accessories: Circle Thinlets die, sponge

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Hello Little Rascal ~ CMCC#9

 

This cute little guy is for Colour Me Challenge #9. 

The color combo is playful and what could be more playful than the images from Life In The Forrest!  I just love them all....they are perfect for water coloring.  I've had this raccoon and mushroom laying around on my desk for a bit and had this color combo in mind so when I saw this challenge it fit perfectly.  I'm making it in just under the wire too.  I've been unbelievably busy with card classes, following my son's (who is a senior in high school) basketball team, and substitute teaching at our school.  February flew by in a flash and I see I didn't get a chance to blog at all!  I was happy to finally get down to my craft room and create for myself and not for a class! 

The card photographed more turquoise, but I promise it's really Bermuda Bay!  I've been trying to find projects to use the Chevron Punch on.  When I purchased it I thought I'd use it tons....so far I've only used it a handful of times. 

 

Here's a list of my supplies....

Supplies for this card

Stamps: Life in the Forrest, Tiny Tags, Distressed Dots

Paper: Bermuda Bay, Black, Smokey Slate, Real Red, White, Fresh Prints DSP, Watercolor

Ink: Stazon Black, Bermuda Bay, Smokey Slate, Soft Suede, Real Red

Accessories: Neutral Candy Dots, Tiny Trio Punch, Framelits Labels, Tiny Tag Punch, 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Chevron Punch

You can order most of these supplies HERE!

 Thanks for taking a peek! 

Jenny